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To review the minimal, mostly belated media "coverage," in the first half of 2015, of the epidemic of femicides in the State of Mexico is perhaps, for many Canadians, to contemplate the staggering realities of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in this country through another lens.

Apart from the obvious and all-too-familiar homicidal misogyny that drives events in both instances, are there instructive links to be discerned between them that do not sacrifice the specificities, not only of distinct societal phenomena separated geographically by the continental U.S., but of each murder, its circumstances and outcome?